Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs.
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- Eton College
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"By factitious air, I mean in general any kind of air which is contained any in other bodies in an unelastic state, and is produced from thence by art."
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1732
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